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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 705862, member: 66&quot;]The submitter probably sent in a roll of 1955-S cents and wrote D on the submission form.&nbsp; Guy unpacking at the TPG just types into the computer what was on the form and the computer prints barcodes.&nbsp; Next guy puts the coins in flips and sticks the barcode on them.&nbsp; Grader scans the barcode and types in a grade.&nbsp; At sealing the guy scans the barcode and the computer prints the label based on the code and what the grader typed in.&nbsp; Coin and label are sealed in the holder.&nbsp; Nowhere along this route has there really been any way to see if the information matches the coin except at the initial data entry.&nbsp; Now if they have a finalizer who checks the finished slab he might catch it, but he is basically checking the grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the seller catching it, we have a whole industry now brought up to believe in the slabs and what the slabs say and I believe that a LOT of coins get bought and sold every day based just on what is printed on the slab label.&nbsp; And this has been going on for some time.&nbsp; I know of a story from years back about a large cent in one of the old PCI slabs.&nbsp; It was a 1796 Liberty Cap in Fine that went through several dealers hands and was finally sold to a very happy collector (With the final dealer insisting that it was undergraded and he wanted VF money.)&nbsp; Why was he so happy?&nbsp; Because none of the dealers had every really bothered to look at the coin, just the label.&nbsp; The coin was actually a 1793 Liberty cap.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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